{"id":11175,"date":"2010-12-01T22:04:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11175"},"modified":"2010-12-01T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T03:04:58","slug":"arizona-state-sun-devils-at-baylor-bears-ncaa-basketball-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/arizona-state-sun-devils-at-baylor-bears-ncaa-basketball-picks-11175\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona State Sun Devils at Baylor Bears NCAA Basketball Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arizona State Sun Devils at Baylor Bears
\nThursday, 12\/2\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -10<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Baylor Bears are 10-point home favorites and own a 10-game winning streak at the Ferrell Center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arizona State is the only Pac-10 team to post 20 wins in each of the past three seasons and is set to face the Baylor Bears on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Sun Devils enter this contest\u00a0 after dropping a 67-58 decision to St. John\u2019s in Saturday night\u2019s championship game of the Great Alaska Shootout.\u00a0 The team is playing is fifth season under head coach Herb Sendek and returns three senior starters from last year\u2019s second-place Pac-10 team that finished 22-11.\u00a0 Sendek has a good chance in leading his team to victory tonight, with 36 career wins against ranked foes.\u00a0 Arizona State has won seven of its last 15 matchups with ranked opponents after losing 22 in a row.\u00a0 Over the last three seasons, the Sun Devils are 4-7 ATS as an underdog and are double-digit underdogs tonight on the NCAA basketball lines page.<\/p>\n

The Sun Devils pride themselves on defense and are just one of nine teams to finish in the top 25 in scoring defense the past two seasons.\u00a0 Arizona State is 2-3 versus Baylor, dropping a 64-61 game in Tempe last year.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is scoring 64.2 points per game, while only two players are averaging in double figures.\u00a0 Conference experts have pointed out that experience will prove big in this team\u2019s performance over the entire season, as the seniors on the roster are 18-10 in games decided by six points or less.<\/p>\n

Baylor has posted a 2-1 record in the Big 12\/Pac-10 Hardwood Series and has won the last two contests.\u00a0 The Bears have been dominating their recent opponents and have not trailed in the last 138 minutes of action, dating back to the second half of the LaSalle game.\u00a0 The team currently owns a 10-game home winning streak, which is tied for the second-longest streak in Ferrell Center history and the second-longest in the Scott Drew era.\u00a0 The ninth year coach has led the program to a 40-10 mark over its last 50 games dating back to its 2009 postseason run.\u00a0 Baylor is 3-1 ATS as a home favorite of 9.5 to 12 points and 7-3 ATS in this role the past three seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bears have loved playing in prime time especially on the ESPN family of networks, posting a 25-18 record and wins in six straight games.\u00a0 Baylor enters this contest ranking third nationally in rebounding margin (+13.8), 10th in field goal percentage (50.8) and 17th in scoring defense (56.3).\u00a0 Despite winning its last two contests versus the Pac-10 Conference, the Bears still own a dismal 11-20 all-time mark versus its current members.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in the Sun Devils 3-13 ATS mark versus non-conference foes, while the Bears are 8-3 ATS in non-conference competition.<\/p>\n

The hard court action is heading up and the college basketball handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready for you to join in the fun all season long!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arizona State Sun Devils at Baylor Bears Thursday, 12\/2\/10, 7:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 ESPN2 Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baylor -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baylor -10 Arizona State is the only Pac-10 team to post 20 wins in each of the past three seasons and is set to face the Baylor Bears on Thursday night.\u00a0 The Sun […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":9810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1444],"tags":[439,3288,738,4030,4029,740],"class_list":["post-11175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-basketball","category-headlines","tag-arizona-state-sun-devils","tag-baylor-bears","tag-big-12","tag-ferrell-center","tag-herb-sendek","tag-pac-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11177,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11175\/revisions\/11177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}